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1992-93 Season
Robinson Theatre
EqUUS A mating drama
Wings on Your Heels a <mnc« p***
On the Verge a buoy am pomey
Chimera a rr«^ai o
King Lear a powerful tragedy
Blue WindOW A bmoriwtHrf romefjy
Assassins A disltjftwvy muv M
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IN TOUCH
with Performing Arts __
Scenes behind the scenes bring University Theatre alive
□Sets costumes and
lights take months of
work
The preparation for a Univer
sity play at the Robinson 1 ne
ater is nothing short of a
Broadway production.
Months before the opening night per
formance, set designers, costume design
ers and lighting technicians collaborate
their plans at rehearsals and production
meetings so that backdrops, costumes
and lighting all coordinate.
Deep in the basement of Villnrd, the
costume sliop and stage design area come
alive with sounds of sewing mac lanes and
power saws echoing throughout the hall
ways.
A glance into the costume shop
reveals several costume makers at work.
Iron boards and sewing machines with
character names like Frida, Cassiopia,
Angelina, Salyria and Medusa, ore
arranged as an efficient assembly line tor
tlie makers. Boxes of buttons and an array
of colored thread line the walls next to
the old costumes. "Does this match,
Sandy?"
Sandy Bonds, faculty costume direc
tor, answers the student with a nod of
approval. Bonds oversees the manufac
turing of costumes by graduate anil
undergraduate students and those in
work study.
"The designer is responsible tor the
entire visual outlook,” Bonds said. "It
includes everything like hair, make-up,
clothes, shoes, underwear everything
that touches the actors "
Ik aid said the design process hegins as
s,k'n ns she knows rhe plays tor the sea
son.
“I start thinking out the designs in mv
head and who ts going make what lx tore
I even put the pencil to the paper," she
said
Presently, the nxim shows signs of the
up-coming pnducrionot lufuus , l>y Peter
Shatter. “This play is not as elaborate
as a Shakespearean, so everything is run
ning smoothly," Bonds said.
Die costume makers completed the
horse heads tor l\(uus two weeks ago.
“We had to have them done because the
actors must practice with them now in
order to look completely natural with
them on by owning night," IVmils said.
Down the hall from the costume shop
is the source of the hammering and
drilling noises. The smell ot freshly cut
timber lingers and the dust is thick. Evi
‘We collaborate to find the
type of world we want to
create for our audience. ’
-Sandy Bonds,
{■acuity costume director
deuce ot lufuus in-the-making appears
on center stage.
Graduate student Molly Eness is work •
mg on the set design tor Shatter's play
with assistance from graduate students
and actors tultilling tine arts require
ments.
“To design a set, the crew asks the
directors tor adjectives that desertbe the
teeltng ot the play,” Eness said. “Some
times we’ll hear ‘dull and drah’ and oth
er times, ‘sparkly and vivacious.' I he
crew designs with those words in mind.”
In addition to the adjectives, Eness
must design (>n the Verge , by Eric Over
meyer, as a module set so that it dix's not
inconvenience other performances.
“We have plenty ot time to design the
set," Eness said, “hut the there’s a dance
recital a tew days Isefore and there’s talk
ot running /roubles between them."
"Not only do the costumes and set
have to coordinate with each other bui
the lighting during the production as
well, “it is really important that every
thing meshes together from an artistic to
a logistic standpoint,” Janet Rose, tat ul
tv technical director, said. “Nothing can
compete. "
Rose has never had a problem with
completing the set before a show since
her tirst year at the University. “ Fhe crew
finished the set the day ot opening night.
It was a celling piece that no one would
have noticed, hut me."
During the technical rehearsal. Rose
will find any last minute changes it the
lighting does not complement the scenes
and costumes. About five students will
learn to run tin- lighting and drop si ts by
cues during a performance.
When the last nail is pounded, tin- last
stitch is sewn and the last light is plugged,
the set designers, costume designers and
lighting technicians are prepared to see
their work come alive on stage. “We col
lalxirate to find die type ot world we want
to create tor our audience," Bonds said.
All expenditures for the costuming
and set designs are paid by ticket sates.
Tlie University’s Fine Arts Department
also has a grant from the ASUO that
helps keep cost down tor student tickets.
—Kristin (ienier
Senior Ann Swanson helps se
I’H.Xn h Kim S|u>vn
tier Heather Linn into her costume for the University ITieaire's production of Blue Windows.
Phcrto by Kim Nfuyxr
University Theatre Director Craig Willis said he got hooked on
theater after his second play.
btudent director hnds niche
in University Theatre works
□“Blue Window” director says
casting is toughest part of job
1 heater director Craig Willis said acting didn't turn him
on at all in the beginning.
The graduate student in Line Arts who will U directing
Blue Witruiou this I lalloween said a high sc Ihh-I teacher con
vinced him to try acting, hut his friends had to talk him into
auditioning tor a second play.
After that he was hooked on theater.
Last spring Willis directed the University play I uwg/ung
WiLl . He has also directed two AIDS Awareness plays, Andre's
Mot/ier , and Suje Sex .
Willis said the diverse nature of directing is w hat draws
him to it.
“Directing is a cratt of the eclectic,” Willis said.
Willis said his job not only entails leading the at tors in their
rehearsals, hut collaborating on the set designing and casting
the actors .
In casting tor the upcoming Blue Wmdou , Willis had to
select seven actors from the I 10 that auditioned in just one
week.
“I believe that *50 percent of a director's job is casting,”
Willis said. "Casting and inspiring the actors are most chal
lenging. I also enjoy the leadership that the role demands."
Willis grew ii(> in Bellingham, Wash. As a child In- was inter
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